Logo Proposal for Linchpin

[area55git]

Hi, I'm a graphic designer and I like to collaborate with open source projects. Do you know that the graphic image of a project is very important? thinking about it I would like to design a logo for your Project Linchpin.

I will be pleased to collaborate with you.

[herlo]

Hi @area55git this sounds great. Do you have any initial designs you'd like to share? I initially looked into this, but didn't really come up with anything more than an idea. A linchpin usually is an important piece, so maybe using a google images search to start would be helpful? Thanks!

[area55git]

Perfect..! I am very enthusiastic to design a Logo for your project. I'm going to prepare some proposals and send them to you. If you have some ideas, suggestions as to style or colors would be great to be able to start. I also need a brief summary of Linchpin to get a better idea.

[herlo]

https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/blob/develop/README.rst can be a good resource for a summary. The first few lines should suffice. As for colors, something semi-muted, maybe blue and tan or some such come to mind, but there's not definite bias.

[area55git]

Hi @herlo, this is the logo proposal for LinchPin

A simple logotype with multiple version to use in different environtment (profile pict, social media, github readme, website, favicon, etc).

[area55git]

Hi @herlo, What did you think of the proposal?

[herlo]

@area55git I like your work, but I asked for opinions from a few others first. I'm thinking the design might need to change some, but don't know how yet. @samvarankashyap, any thoughts on this logo?

[samvarankashyap]

@herlo @area55git : Great work !. It has got a Interesting color gradient. However, the "L" in logo is significant I don't see anything that suggests a "cloud" or just "P" for provisioning tool. Since, Linchpin is more of a cloud orchestration tool you could as well incorporate cloud symbol into it ( It might be a overkill though ). please see:

1. https://github.com/cloudimmense ( minus gradient color ) Rest said, I like your designs.

[area55git]

Hi @samvarankashyap, You like this?

[area55git]

[area55git]

Hi, @herlo, do you like any of the proposals?

[herlo]

@area55git Hi, sorry for the slow response.

Personally, the tag line doesn't work for me, but I like the cloud component. I'm leaning toward the blue logo, or a combination of blue and red might be nice. The L in the circle seems unnecessary, but the linchpin logo above was nice. Maybe have the linchpin be inside the circle somehow and not have the 'L', maybe with the cloud instead of a circle? Not sure, just looking for more ideas I think.

Either way, I like the progress of this stuff, and I know it's a process to get right, so thanks for contributing! Let's keep going. :+1:

[area55git]

Ok, in 2 or 3 days I will present you another proposal, keep working. 👍

[area55git]

Hi @herlo, What do you think of this proposal?

[area55git]

[herlo]

@area55git Thank you for these updated logos. I think having the linchpin bits for the logo were better choices. I'm also not keen on the tagline 'Ansible based multicloud orchestrator' in the logo/wordmark. I do like the blue colors in the right-hand cloud logo and the font in the logo above it. Let's keep going forward with more adjustments, if that's ok

[area55git]

[area55git]

what do you think?

[herlo]

@area55git I like the logo colors, but don't want a cloud there. Maybe a true linchpin or something closer to that? Maybe a similar to the top one in this link? https://postimg.cc/image/piges181z/ but without the L, and more internal? I like the idea of something like this: http://www.mirageinc.com/content/images/thumbs/0001239_716-linchpin-with-10-lanyard.jpeg

What do you think @samvarankashyap ?

[area55git]

Perfect, I understand, I'm going to present a new proposal

[area55git]

Hi @herlo look at this proposal

[area55git]

Hi @herlo

[herlo]

@area55git I think the pin itself should be a bit smaller, maybe make it a cotter-type pin (which could be a lower case 'L'). The circle of the linchpin could be a mostly complete circle. I like the tilted linchpin, and would like a wordmark, image mark, and combined as a logo, as identifiers of linchpin. I think we're getting there.

Thanks!

[samvarankashyap]

@area55git I agree with @herlo we are almost there !

[area55git]

Hi @herlo @samvarankashyap, I'm going to make a new sketch and send it in a few days.

[samvarankashyap]

@area55git any update ?

[samvarankashyap]

Moving issue to the backlog #1240